Bode, director of the Berlin Museum, which included many of the finest examples of the Dutch and English schools. Having amassed a considerable fortune as a mining magnate, the philanthropist Alfred Beit (1853-1906), was able to build up a fine collection of pictures from the late 1880s under the guidance of Dr. This painting is recorded in the Alfred Beit collection at the beginning of the 20th century. (125.7 x 101 cm. Lady in Blue after Thomas Gainsborough, art print by Irene Owens (298) 30.00. The sitter, who was 19 in that year, married the Hon. Thomas Gainsborough’s (17271788) iconic painting was first shown in public in the Royal Academy exhibition of 1770 as A Portrait of a Young Gentleman, where it received high acclaim, and by 1798 it was being called The Blue Boya nickname that stuck. Mrs Watson (1767-1818), later Lady Sondes, three-quarter-length, seated in a pink dress with blue sash, a draped curtain beyond oil on canvas 49½ x 39¾ in. Shortly after his death one of his portraits sold for just one guinea and in 1922 The Blue Boy sold for more than any other painting. It is hard to find an artist whose reputation is more varied than Thomas Gainsborough 's. Waterhouse dated this painting to 1786 ( op.cit), when Gainsborough was working in London. Thomas Gainsborough (17271788) Paintings Collection.

After the death of her husband in June 1806, the sitter married Major General Sir Henry Tucker Montresor. A record number of visitors queued outside the National Gallery in January 1922, despite the drizzly conditions, to see a single painting: Thomas Gainsboroughs Blue Boy (c 1770). Lewis Thomas Watson and on the death of his father in March 1795 he became 2nd Baron Sondes of Lees Court. On his father being created Baron Sondes, Lewis Thomas Watson became the Hon. Lewis Thomas Watson, eldest son and heir of Lewis Watson (1728-1795), formerly Monson of Rockingham Castle, who took the surname Watson in lieu of that of Monson in February 1745/46 and was created Baron Sondes of Lees Court, Kent on. Portrait of a Lady in Blue 1777-79 - Thomas Gainsborough -, the largest gallery in the world: wikigallery - the largest virtaul gallery in the world with more than 150,000 on display. (British, 17271788) British 1727 1788 Title: Portrait of lady in blue silk Medium: oil on canvas Size: 50 x 40 in. We are dedicated to creating only 100 handmade oil painting reproductions to ensure a faithful and museum-quality replica of Portrait of a Lady in Blue 1777-79, as originally created by Thomas Gainsborough. In November 1785, Mary Elizabeth married the Hon. Starting with a sketch, the artist adds all the details and colors, layer by layer, following the original brushstroke style. Thomas Tanner, whom he married on 9 October 1765. The sitter, Mary Elizabeth, was the only child of Richard Milles (1735-1820), of North Elmham, Norfolk, Member of Parliament for Canterbury (1761-1780), by his wife Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of the Rev.

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